posted a WIP of this two years ago, finished it the next day, but here it is now
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WHY THE HELL ON EARTH NOBODY IN THE TERROR FANDOM PAYS EVEN JUST A LITTLE ATTENTION AND DOESN'T GIVE SOME MINIMAL RESPECT AND AFFECTION TO POOR SIR JOHN, I FUCKING WONDER?!!!
Gosh.
People seem to have neither taste nor education to be able to appreciate really delightful things, shame on them.
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historical accuracy in fics is so funny to me. googling if they had grapefruit spoons in 1845 but also letting two men get married. fuck homophobia, tell me about cutlery.
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I wanted to do one of those poll things for season 1 of The Terror. You know the drill, share it and tell me which one of these you think is a lie. To my fellow Cold Boys enjoyers, please share and don't give it away.
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i say i'm not a sickfic enjoyer but the truth is i absolutely am i just can't stand it if it's romanticised and not viscerally nasty about the smell of blood and sweat and piss and vomit and the gross intimacy of taking care of someone who barely has control of their faculties and the indignity of delirium and needing to be taken care of and the devotion of sleeping beside someone while they convalesce so faithfully that you barely eat drink or bathe until you both look and smell disgusting and give off a palpable miasma of sickness and suffering
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Has read the Silmarillion and enjoyed it: Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, Frodo, Sam, Faramir
Has read the Silmarillion and hated it: Gimli
Hasn't read the Silmarillion: Merry, Pippin, Boromir
Has read the Silmarillion, then wrote passionate Silmarillion fanfiction poetry that made Aragorn try to gently explain the dubious ethics of writing RPF about Elrond's dad: Bilbo
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My latest fandom column for Atlas Obscura is live! This one is on @terrorcamp, a Terror fandom con + polar history conference that truly feels like it straddles both fandom and academia. Many thanks to the brilliant group of people who spoke to me for this piece, especially TC organizer @areyougonnabe, of course!!
There are so many quotes I love, but one of my favorites was from Hester Blum, a Penn State English professor, on how the event reshaped her thinking about current teaching in the humanities:
Watching the presentations from younger fans also made her reassess the way she and her colleagues approach their students; many academics discuss younger generations’ interest in “relatability,” and how it prevents them from engaging with history and literature. “One of the things that this conference made me realize is how fundamentally we have misunderstood what it means to be ‘relatable,’” she says. “And it’s not simply a lack of critical distance or affinity—but the kind of passionate fan response, as something that is deeply critical and deeply thought-through. It was one of those moments that was like, ‘Oh, this can be the future of engagement.’ This was incredible.”
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"'All well.' That seems like another lifetime, does it not, Francis? Can you remember a time when any of us could write such a thing with an easy conscience?"
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